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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES PRODUCER PRICE INDEX FOR WIRED, WIRELESS, SATELLITE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES IN GERMANY 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 2 DEFINITION OF THE SECTOR Telecommunications comprises transmission of voice, data, text, sound and video content, without being involved in its creation
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 3 Structure of the German market 63.6 Bill EUR turnover in 2006, thereof - 20.5 Bill EUR fixed line telephony - 22.1 Bill EUR mobile Phone services - 0.8 Bill EUR leased lines - 7.4 Bill EUR interconnection - 3.0 Bill EUR cable TV - 9.8 Bill EUR other services
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 4 Challenges of TC for price statistics Market characteristics rapid changes in technology permanent introduction of new services strong competition between companies large changes in the market position of companies
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 5 Challenges of TC for price statistics Statistical challenges good timing for introduction/dropout of services Handling of changes in the condition of services quality adjustments for new services handling of bundles sensitiveness of data
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 6 CPI and SPPI for TC calculation within one unit Advantages persons have + a good expertise of the markets + good contacts to companies dual use of information but - separate calculation procedures for CPI and SPPI
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 7 Development of the German SPPI for TC In 2006 coordinated work started to revise the CPI and to develop the SPPI Work in two stages: obtaining the weighting data for CPI and SPPI developing the current surveys for SPPI The existence of a legal obligation made work much easier than in a previous pilot phase 2003/2004
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 8 In Germany the regulation authority is not allowed to pass individual statistical data to Destatis but Destatis got much technical advice from regulator regulator‘s annual questionnaires were used as a basis for statistical questionnaires results were cross checked statistical questionnaires contained weighting information required for CPI and SPPI Cooperation with the regulator
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 9 Business to Business- and Business to All- approach OECD/Eurostat task force: all sectors including the public sector or private householders EU-regulation 1158/2005 (concerning short term statistic STS-regulation) covers only services delivered to customers that are enterprises all business to business to business SPPI-concepts:
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 10 Business to Business- or Business to All- approach According to recent EU recommendations Germany follows the Business to All-approach
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 11 Sample design - Cut-off sample of all companies with a turnover of 100 Mill EUR and more - sample comprises 30 companies - covers 95% of the whole turnover of TC
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 12 Collection of information Unit value approach Units observed are: - Turnover and - number of.. (e.g. participants) or - minutes of telephone calls or - GByte of data transmission
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 13 Survey programme Division into two categories: - Fixed line telephony and internet use - mobile telephony
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 14 Main activities observed Fixed line telephony/internet use - Private final clients (minute prices by type of call, VoIP, flat rates, bundled products by types etc.) - Business final clients (same breakdown as above) - Wholesale of phone calls (specific breakdown per company) - Leased lines - Internet (e.g. provision and access via broad band/narrow band by type, flatrates)
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 15 Main activities observed Mobile telephony - Private and business final clients (basic fee, calls into different nets, flatrates, prepaid cards etc.) - Wholesale (contract clients, prepaid cards, calls by nets, etc.) - National roaming (language, SMS, MMS, etc.) - International roaming (see above)
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 16 Flat rates and bundled products - Increasing importance since 2006 - flat rates common for fixed line telephony, mobile phone, Internet - bundled products mainly fixed line telephony and Internet - all types of bundled products exist (combination of flat rates and/or quantity related tariffs) - shift to higher data transmission standards in Internet use (quality change) - regular update of survey programme necessary -
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 17 Burden for companies - Specific questionnaires for companies according to their activities. - These questionnaires form a subset of the complete survey programme
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 18 Calculation procedure Separate computation for the sectors - fixed line telephony/internet (no separation because of bundling) and - mobile telephony Company specific calculation (drastic changes of market share of market participants)
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 19 Calculation procedure - Per company service output is divided into homogeneous subsets for which value and quantity data are available - indices per service output are calculated and aggregated at the level of the company - indices for companies are aggregated to sectoral indices - sectoral indices are aggregated to TC total
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Slide 20
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Federal Statistical Office of Germany FSO Germany - Peter Roemer - Division Prices – 2008 MEETING OF VOORBURG GROUP, AGUASCALIENTES Discussion ?! Roemer Peter, Destatis Germany Telefone: ++49 (0) 611 75-2332 E-Mail: peter.roemer@destatis.depeter.roemer@destatis.de
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